Chrome 115 rolls out with anti-cookie tools
No other new features
Chrome 115 has been rolling out, and while it is short on new features, it has something to kill off tracking cookies.
Hackers stealing cookies
Bypass multi-factor authentication
Hackers are stealing cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication.
EU rules that you can't build cookie consent walls
You have to provide them the content anway
The EU has ruled that you can't make access to your website's content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data -- aka a 'consent cookie wall'.
Firefox blocks third party cookies by default
Prefers eating fruit and memory
Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have announced privacy improvements to its flagship memory hog browser Firefox.
Advertisers fume as Apple blocks cookies
No cookies on this Safari
The biggest advertising organisations say Apple will "sabotage" the current economic model of the internet with plans to integrate cookie blocking technology into the new version of Safari.
Privacy groups warn about super cookies
Pressure on US phone companies
Microsoft says it is doing the right thing on data tracking
Bing holds onto your IP address for “only” six months